One qubit modeling the universe

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I just had a weird thought.
One qubit is a 2-d complex vector space which is isomorphic to a 4-d real vector space. Why can't we model the 4-manifold of space-time universe using one qubit?
 
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I like Serena said:
I think that is because we're still having great difficulty modelling even 1 regular bit in a qubit... :smile:

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One qubit is a 2-d complex vector space which is isomorphic to a 4-d real vector space. Why can't we model the 4-manifold of space-time universe using one qubit?
A qubit state is not the space but a vector of that space. So you can model a universe with only one classical particle with it.